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The University of Pennsylvania on the research behind Fluid Silicon and the President's Sustainability Prize awarded to Nhlanhla Mavuso for the project.
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Nhlanhla Mavuso awarded Penn's President's Sustainability Prize for Fluid Silicon
Penn announces its 2026 prize recipients. The Sustainability Prize recognizes the work behind Fluid Silicon: running chips at their measured limits instead of a worst-case margin.
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About Fluid Silicon
Fluid Silicon builds in-system timing measurement for FPGAs. Its platform measures setup slack on every LUT and carry chain at operating frequency while the design runs, so the engineers who operate critical systems find the paths losing margin before they fail and know when each device will need attention. The platform works today on AMD and Altera FPGAs and grew out of reconfigurable-computing research at the University of Pennsylvania, which awarded founder Nhlanhla Mavuso its 2026 President's Sustainability Prize for the work. Fluid Silicon is based in Philadelphia, PA.
Fluid Silicon builds in-system timing measurement for FPGAs. Its platform measures setup slack on every LUT and carry chain at operating frequency while the design runs, so the engineers who operate critical systems find the paths losing margin before they fail and know when each device will need attention. The platform works today on AMD and Altera FPGAs and grew out of reconfigurable-computing research at the University of Pennsylvania, which awarded founder Nhlanhla Mavuso its 2026 President's Sustainability Prize for the work. Fluid Silicon is based in Philadelphia, PA.
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